Report: Securing critical infrastructure not receiving support it should

The federal government’s intelligence community needs to do a better job of sharing intelligence information with the country’s critical infrastructure sector, according to a recent report from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.

The council’s 227-page report (pdf download), “Intelligence Information Sharing,” is a follow-up to a similar study it conducted in 2006. While information sharing between the federal government and private critical infrastructure sector has improved since the 2006 report, it still “is not sufficient to maximize the protection and resilience of the nation’s infrastructure,” the current study states. The council, which provides the president with advice on the security of 18 critical infrastructure sectors, calls information sharing “perhaps the most important factor in the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure.”

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